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Proposed 2025 Schedule of Events

DATE EVENT TIME  
31 JAN
Winterfest 2025 1700-2200 Smash Park - Roseville
19 FEB
FAA & MAC Briefing 1130-1300

Metropolitan Airports Commission

Proposed 4-6 MAR
Congressional Visit All Day
Washington D.C. - Capital Hill
 TBD MAR
 YoPro Event #1
 TBD TBD
 20 MAR
Safety Day 2025
 0730 - 1430
Cambria Hotel - Bloomington MOA
25-26 MAR

2025 Minnesota Aviation Maintenance Technician & IA  Renewal Conference

0800 - 1530
Earl Brown Center
TBD APR
Mankato Business Aviation Day
0900 - 1500
Mankato Regional Airport (MKT)
 12 APR
MAHOF Banquet
1700 - 2030
Mystic Lake Center - Prior Lake
23-25 APR
MN Airports Conference
ALL DAY
Mankato, MN
 23 MAY
Aviation Day @ MN Capitol
 0730 - 1430
Holman's Table - St.Paul
TBD MAY
YoPro Event #2
TBD
 TBD
 TBD MAY
Great Minnesota Aviation Gathering
TBD
Buffalo Municipal Airport (KCFE)
TBD JUN
Sponsored Event TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD JUL
Sponsored Event TBD 
 TBD TBD
25 AUG
54th Annual MBAA GOLF CLASSIC
0900 - 1930
Brackett's Crossing CC - Lakeville
TBD SEP
Sponsored Event TBD
TBD
TBD
 TBD SEP
Girls/Women in Aviation Day
TBD
TBD
17 SEP
ATF Event
 TBD TBD - Minneapolis Gun Club - Prior Lake
 14-16 OCT
NBAA-BACE
ALL DAY
Las Vegas Convention Center
TBD NOV
 YoPro Event #3  TBD TBD
3 DEC
Annual Membership Meeting
 1100 - 1330
 Embassy Suites Bloomington
TBD
Scholarship Recipent Luncheon
 1130 - 1330
Holman's Table, St. Paul

MN Aviation events hosted by other aviation organizations.

MBAA members are encouraged to participate and support.

MBAA events are normally scheduled on the second Wednesday of the Month.  Unless confirmed, events scheduled are based on experience and discussions with sponsors.  Once confirmed, event details are posted in the EVENTS tab. Send suggestions for a program, speaker, vendor, or topic to ADMIN@mbaa-mn.org


Moorhead lands $5B sustainable jet fuel plant and its 650 jobs

The facility will convert agriculture and timber waste into jet fuel.

Minnesota Star Tribune by Christopher Vondracek  -  November 4, 2024

 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and Minnesota have high aspirations for using sustainable airline fuel. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

A $5 billion facility to manufacture jet fuel for airplanes is coming to Moorhead.

DG Fuels, a Washington D.C., based energy company, announced it’s putting a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant in Clay County, bringing 650 jobs to northwestern Minnesota’s border with North Dakota.

The facility, which expects to start production in 2030, will convert agriculture and timber waste into jet fuel, according to a statement from Greater MSP, a Twin Cities-based regional development organization.

“We not only want to lead the world in de-carbonizing air travel” at Minnesota-St. Paul International Airport, said Greater MSP CEO Peter Frosch. “But we want to produce that SAF in Minnesota.”

The selection of Moorhead, Frosch said, was evidence of the concerted push from the Minnesota SAF Hub — which includes government, universities, nonprofits and companies, including Bank of America and Delta Air Lines — to ramp up production of SAF in Minnesota.

The project is also a win for Moorhead.

“With the largest shovel-ready industrial site in the state of Minnesota, we are excited and prepared to compete on the national stage for this economic development opportunity,” said Moorhead Mayor Shelly Carlson in a statement.

While SAF can be produced from biomass streams, including corn stover, industry experts look to perennial crops as well, such as camelina and other oilseeds, as possible sources for feedstocks.

“We have a diverse array of feedstocks [in Minnesota],” said Andrea Vaubel, deputy commissioner at the Minnesota Department of Agriculture. “We’re thrilled for the farmers in the Red River Valley.”

 DG Fuels did not respond to a request for an interview. But the facility will produce 193 million gallons of SAF per year and take four years to construct, according to a release from the company. The company says it expects the investment will produce $50 billion in economic activity for the state over the next three decades.

Industry officials say Minnesota has worked to position itself as a SAF-friendly state. In 2023, Gov. Tim Walz and the Legislature passed a tax credit awarding a company $1.50 for every gallon of SAF produced.

In 2023, the U.S. produced fewer than 25 million gallons of SAF. But production of the sustainable fuel is expected to ramp up. A number of airlines, including Delta, have publicly committed to dropping their carbon footprint. Researchers estimate air travel contributes just below 3% annually to global greenhouse gases.

DG Fuels in April announced it is building a 180 million-gallon-a-year plant in Louisiana. That facility will convert waste from sugar cane to SAF.

 In September, the first SAF-powered commercial jet to fly from MSP completed a flight to LaGuardia Airport in New York.

                                                                                                                                                                 

Help Stop Harmful Tax Proposals

Please tell Congress TODAY to stand up for business aviation and the economy!

If you weren’t paying careful attention, you may have missed it in his State of the Union address, President Biden referenced troubling new tax proposals for business aviation.

The president has followed through on those comments with onerous proposals in his annual budget plan that single out the industry for punitive tax treatment, including a five-fold fuel tax increase on business aviation, to $1.06 per gallon, and a change to the depreciation schedule for a purchased business aircraft, from 5 years to 7 years.

The budget proposal follows a recent plan unveiled by the IRS for audits on companies using business aircraft, to ensure that “everyone is playing by the same rules.”

NBAA and MBAA are always working for you. As the Biden administration ramps up its rhetoric and regulatory focus on business aviation, the associations have been quick to push back. But there is power in numbers and we need Congress to hear your voice today!

Go to the NBAA website via the following link or call your member of Congress and both Minnesota Senators TODAY to urge Congress to oppose anti-business aviation tax policies from the administration. Remind Congress that business aviation powers the economy with 1.2 million jobs and $250 billion in economic activity each year.

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